A World of My Own by Graham Greene

A World of My Own by Graham Greene

A daily record of Graham Greene's dreams over the last 25 years of his life, waking four or five times a night to jot down key words. In the months before his death in April 1991 he made this small selection for publication to entertain and amuse his readers. In his introduction he describes the connections between the "secret world of dreams" and "the real world". He clearly felt at ease in this world in which he gave free rein to his love of adventure or his delight in the absurd. It is a world of unusual events - from memorable literary moments: his meeting with Henry James on a river boat in Bolivia, his role in Evelyn Waugh's shooting of that notorious guerilla chief, W.H. Auden, to his attempt to murder Goebbels with a cigarette, and his surprising appointment as Archbishop of Westminister. By the author of "The Power and the Glory", "The Heart of the Matter", "The Quiet American", "The End of the Affair", "Travels with my Aunt", "The Third Man", "The Comedians" and "Our Man in Havanna".

Graham Greene (1904-1991), whose long life nearly spanned the length of the twentieth century, was one of its greatest novelists. Educated at Berkhamsted School and Balliol College, Oxford, he started his career as a sub-editor of the London Times. He began to attract notice as a novelist with his fourth book, Orient Express, in 1932. In 1935, he trekked across northern Liberia, his first experience in Africa, told in A Journey Without Maps (1936). He converted to Catholicism in 1926, an edifying decision, and reported on religious persecution in Mexico in 1938 in The Lawless Roads, which served as a background for his famous The Power and the Glory, one of several Catholic novels (Brighton Rock, The Heart of the Matter, The End of the Affair). During the war he worked for the British secret service in Sierra Leone; afterward, he began wide-ranging travels as a journalist, which were reflected in novels such as The Quiet American, Our Man in Havana, The Comedians, Travels with My Aunt, The Honorary Consul, The Human Factor, Monsignor Quixote, and The Captain and the Enemy. As well as his many novels, Graham Greene wrote several collections of short stories, four travel books, six plays, two books of autobiography, A Sort of Life and Ways of Escape, two biographies, and four books for children. He also contributed hundreds of essays and film and book reviews to The Spectator and other journals, many of which appear in the late collection Reflections. Most of his novels have been filmed, including The Third Man, which the author first wrote as a film treatment. Graham Greene was named Companion of Honour and received the Order of Merit among numerous other awards.

Christopher Hitchens is a widely published polemicist and frequent radio and TV commentator. He is the author of many books, including Why Orwell Matters, Letters to a Young Contrarian, The Trial of Henry Kissinger, as well as books on Cyprus, Kurdistan and Palestine, including Blaming the Victims coedited with Edward Said. He is a contributing editor to Vanity Fair and writes for, among others, Slate, The Atlantic Monthly, The New York Times Book Review, and The Washington Post. He lives with his family in Washington, D.C.

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ISBN 10	1871061369
Title	A World of My Own
Author	Graham Greene
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Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Penguin Books Ltd
Year published	1992-10-29
Number of pages	128
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